Alicia Youngman


Contact Info:

  • Email: aliciayoungmann@gmail.com
  • Phone: 518-286-8990 (voice/text/facetime)

Education:

  • SUNY New Paltz
    • BA English- 2013

Certifications:

  • RID NIC

About Alicia:

Alicia Youngman lives just north of Albany, NY, conveniently close to both Vermont and Massachusetts. Alicia started learning ASL in college by taking classes and becoming involved with the Deaf Community. After graduating college, she began work at Austine School for the Deaf in Brattleboro, VT, where she worked 1:1 with a student and gained invaluable experience working both in the dorm and school environments, working with and learning from students and colleagues. While working for Austine, she invested her time in interpreting workshops/trainings, working with an interpreting mentor and a Deaf mentor, and eventually going on to begin interpreting full time. In 2018, she obtained her National Interpreter Certification (NIC) from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. Alicia now interpreters full time in private practice in New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts. She interpreters in a number of settings including medical, education, college, business and general community.


Options Mission


Options standards:

  1. Clear and fair practices for all individuals who are a party to our services.
  2. Vetted, competent and accountable interpreters are working each and every assignment.
  3. Working within the frame of upholding the linguistic and human rights of the individuals we serve.
  4. Fostering and nurturing the development of interpreters by ways of education and mentorship.

Options priorities:

  1. Raise the bar on interpreting standards and expectations of customer service.
  2. Shift the paradigm of procurement of interpreter services.
  3. Being available and accessible to the communities we serve.

All Options: An Interpreting Cooperative practitioners;

  • Are RID certified or RID certification ready (i.e. passed the RID written examination and are committed to taking the RID performance evaluation)
  • Engages in regular professional dialogue and has an ethical support community.
  • Supports the Deaf community by ways of giving back such as pro bono work, community engagement and involvement, volunteerism, and activism.
  • Maintains and exceeds national expectations of professional development and growth.
  • Upholds the linguistic rights of the Deaf community by practicing within a rights based frame of ethical decision making.
  • Advocates for the direct procurement of optimal and culturally competent interpreting services.

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